Hyper Local News I Springfield, Cottage Grove, Creswell, & Pleasant Hill
Hyper Local News I Springfield, Cottage Grove, Creswell, & Pleasant Hill
With the holidays here, families may become aware of many things that have not have gotten attention throughout the course of the year. Or, if they had it was easy to push them aside due to our, ”oh so busy lives!” Holidays, however, tend to…
There’s no doubt this City knows how to put on a show for Christmas. This year marks 15 years of Creswell’s Tree Lighting Celebration, though it has evolved significantly since its Dec. 18, 2003 debut. The tree lighting celebration was first identified as an ”Oregon…
I know that my last column was heavy-duty, but I wanted to share my brother’s experiences with you. Jim and I went to see him again yesterday (last Wednesday), and Jimmy is in a hospice care center. Although he was visibly more frail, his spirit…
OPAL WHITELEY Photo provided Opal Whiteley looms large in Cottage Grove – namely about 18 feet tall – smiling down from the newly restored mural in the Opal Whiteley Park on Main Street. She is one of the area’s most interesting and mysterious former inhabitants,…
A local transient was hit with an axe in the arm, after accidentally entering the wrong house on Harvey Road last Friday.Around 3:42 a.m. on Nov. 23, Lane County Sheriff’s Office received a report of a man attempting to enter a house on the 83600…
Photo provided The familiar Queen Anne Victorian house at the confluence of Silk Creek and the Coast Fork of the Willamette River is a museum maintained by the Prospectors and Gold Diggers Club, to showcase early medical practices. It is Cottage Grove’s only Victorian-era house…
Photo provided Drumming is not what Fode Sylla does, one of his students B.J. Jones said, it’s who he is. At two years old, Sylla was taught how to drum by his family in his home country of Guinea; beyond drumming, he learned music, dance…
You can get hands-on with park design input on Dec. 1 at City Hall. Creswell will be all decked out for Christmas with events ongoing throughout the community during the day on Saturday, but City Council is also giving residents an option to get hands-on…
Lloyd Safley said he is not a quitter, but after 36 years serving on the Planning Commission, he decided the time has come to ”step aside” from the committee. ”It’s not an easy thing to do,” he said. He almost wanted to ask if there…